Full name Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge

Born May 1, 1951, Black Bess, St Peter, Barbados

Current age 58 years 66 days

Major teams Scotland, West Indies, Barbados, Hampshire

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Education Sutton Secondary School, Reading, England

Relation Son - CG Greenidge

Brooding and massively destructive, the power of Gordon Greenidge's strokeplay on any given day appeared to bear a direct relationship to the degree that he limped when running between the wickets. In such a mood he didn't run much anyway and his brutal unbeaten 214 at Lord's in 1984, to set up a nine-wicket win after England had had the temerity to declare, is considered one of the great innings. He was a superb technician, who learned solid defensive techniques on the pudding pitches of his childhood in England and then allied them to an uninhibited Caribbean heritage. Attacking was in his genes. Never in the game has there been a more withering and dismissive square-cut, nor a more willing and able hooker and puller, but he drove mightily too on both sides of the wicket. With Desmond Haynes he formed what was by a distance the most enduring and prolific opening partnership of them all, with 16 century stands, four of them in excess of 200. And they were just the hors d'oeuvres.
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Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1977

Walter Lawrence Trophy 1978

Jul 25, 2008

Gordon Greenidge and Kevin Pietersen at the launch of the Stanford Super Series

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Apr 12, 2007

Gordon Greenidge and his wife Patricia chat with Javed Omar and Habibul Bashar at the team hotel

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Jan 4, 2003

Gordon Greenidge's 213 v New Zealand

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